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Old 12-18-2011, 01:13 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by RainingLemur View Post
Would that mean that someone who self-publishes would be a complete jerk-bag if their book were geo-restricted (since it would be their call, after all)?
Yes, unless they also have a previous region-specific contract with a publisher. E.g. Diane Duane sells ebooks of her Young Wizards series herself everywhere except in the US, where her publishers has the ebook rights.

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An author would be foolish to grant all foreign rights to a publisher with no distribution outside his native country!

That situation needn't apply to ebooks, but contracts are still catching up with the way things have always been done.
Exactly so. If print books don't go away for the mass-market, then the only sensible future contract, IMO, is one with regional, exclusive print-rights, but non-exclusive world-wide ebook rights.
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